Bitcoin Forum

I have seen bitcoin mentioned in TV and radio programs in the past hours due the ramsomware attack. Some people did a surprisingly good job at promoting it as a neutral tool and not as a tool for criminals, drug dealers and so on, so that was positive.

Did you see it on the mainstream media in your country? what did they say?

Im also wondering if all publicity is good publicity or not. Im not sure if the fact that being linked to the ramsomware thing is good even if it helps spreading BTC out, but most people are idiots and will not research further so it all comes down to how much of a good job the person explaining BTC does.

Our media here don't even know what bitcoin is so I can't speak about that. I believe that this could be both as good and bad publicity. It really depends on the people watching it. If someone is close minded then he probably will believe whatever he hears on TV, otherwise he will look for it and understand how It works and eventually start using it.

just did heard about the news lately and for sure people around my country is not really affected since they are not aware yet with this
system but you are right making it as neutral as it is people awareness will be gather and interest about bitcoin will rise up.

With more and more this kind of news popping up every now and then, more than 50% of the people I know are aware of bitcoin and most of them actually know that bitcoin is neutral. I guess bitcoin has successfully build a "neutral" or even "positive" image over the past many years.

i don't know if they talked about it or not, we have a voting these days for presidency and that is all everyone is talking about :)

but reading this topic i did a quick google search about bitcoin in my language and i loved the first result:
(translating) it said "bitcoin is an open source money"

i also found out that the "cyberpolice" official website is calling it "decentralized internet cash".

there are a lot of warnings about wannacrypt and how to prevent getting infected with it, and nothing negative about bitcoin.

and fuck the screenshot seems scary with its countdown to its payment being raised and your files will be destroyed thing :o

Do you know why the ransomware attack failed? It is because they demanded payment in bitcoins.  :P

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/few-ransomware-victims-are-paying-hackers-because-using-bitcoin-is-hard-1694340

With articles like these, expect the common man to be very confused.

I'm trying to sell some internet stuff with bitcoin lately and many people who find my sale topics from google want to pay via banks. Surprisingly i was able to sell my stuff with bitcoin but there were many people who didn't know what bitcoin is.

I insisted on getting paid in bitcoins so i refused the offers from those who had no idea about.

If everybody does like me, bitcoin will get boosted big time.

This lack of knowledge on the other hand is a good thing somehow. It shows us that bitcoin is still nowhere near big and there is much more room to grow.

Lack of knowledge about Bitcoin among common people is understandable. But it is ridiculous to blame the failure of WannaCry on the decision to ask for payments in Bitcoin. The reason it failed was that a security researcher got lucky and triggered the kill switch.
If anything, all future malware payments will be demanded in bitcoins.

Bloomberg has done an article about it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-05-15/bitcoin-s-just-too-tempting-when-you-re-being-extorted

SKY Italia used to transmit the voice of some "expert" that "BTC is illegal in Italy" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1919800.0).

All publicity has something of good. People see confusing news, then some of them will look for themselves for more trustworthy sources of information, some of them may end up here, or any another place they can find more accurate information, and end up investing in Bitcoin.

At this point even if a very few % of people that hear the news go deeper and buy Bitcoins, the effect in the economy wouldn't be insignificant 

Its ok for Bitcoin to gain some media mileage, but if the news is negative like whats happening now that Bitcoin is being an accessory to pay for the ransom then its not good. Others say good publicity and bad publicity is the same, its still publicity, but in real life bad publicity turns off people who are interested to try Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is spreading all over people and i guess its very good as the adoption for it a lot.Well i would say it has been used in a very bad way as you may have heard about the wannacry where they are taking bitcoins as a ransom.

200 000 infected computers where Bitcoin is used to commit a crime, is not good publicity for our technology. I would much rather have read that

200 000 computers are running full nodes and that this is the strongest decentralized network in the world. { I think it is, but it would have been

much better, if we had a few hundred thousand more }  ;)

The mainstream media runs with negative news, because it draws much more attention than positive news.  ::)

Bitcoin was mentioned in all the articles I read about this, I was surprised at how little it was mentioned because usually a big deal is made of bitcoin when it is involved in ciminal activity.

I think it is a good thing because it exposes bitcoin to more people and many times there will be a link to give people more information about bitcoin.

We cannot clearly say what is the impact of using Bitcoin as payment for ransom in a ransomware attack. Some might say it is a good publicity since hackers advertise bitcoin in media, others say that it is bad for the image of bitcoin. Well for me, the listeners are the one who can answer if what they hear about bitcoin is good or bad. If the listener is not an open-minded person at all and thing that bitcoin is related to crimes and vice versa, they might think that bitcoin is evil. On the contrary, if the listener is enthusiastic about technology and have heard about bitcoin and have his own digging, then it is a good thing.

Publicity of bitcoin in the media always comes in two way, positive and negative. It is all up to the listener on how they will interpret what they heard.

In the long run this exposure will help. People will find out bitcoin is not so sinister after all when a trusted friend is using it.

The publicity is actually a good thing depending on the areas where we are looking at it because even though the media outburst is mostly ways to pull down bitcoin but what they dont know is that those who are into bitcoin are not leaving while those outside the crypto world that are getting their interest aroused and then indirectly bring them or drag them into bitcoin and by so doing it means increase in the penetration of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not being discussed in most part of the world on the media. Although Media most talks about popular personalities and things but i never saw any documentary or talk show being held on the topic of bitcoin, though Bitcoin is the most popular digital currency these days. Lately it has been discuss in the passed week on media but that too on the issue of Ransome Virus.

Yes,it is all over media now.All the rich idiots are probably giving talks about "how bitcoins are the investment of the future " when they have no idea what blockchain is or what consensus algorithm does.
To add on to it,our hacker bros are really getting all the attention with their ransomwares.

This will definitely going to impact bitcoin positively. The way to promote any product is to get it to media especially social media, tv and radios. This will add more value to bitcoin and crypto currencies in general. Hope to see another pump as market is currently at the accumulation stage.

This is strange that a hack has bring the Bitcoin to the media and now everyone has been curious to know about bitcoins and want to get few coins. The hackers for Wannacry virus never thought they could be promoting Bitcoins ;).  I think no other way was possible and quick to make bitcoin on headlines other than this virus hack attack.
The only god thing about Ransome virus is this aspect, else it a bad day for the technology.

I bet within 90 days bitcoin doubles in price because of all the newly educated people from this event.

Nice work about it I think bitcoin will attract more user now,
Hope to see more price increase soon.

It was badly defined but it still left a question to other people who are witty.
They might research it and end up being here next time.
A good thing in a bad moment. Many have been popular because of this.
They tried to take them down until it fights back with an enormous gain.
If it reaches young people who are risk takers then they might did the best news ever.

Unfortunately...


Absolute garbage as usual, mentioning Bitcoin only when something bad happens is terrible to begin with and describing what Bitcoin is erroneously just makes it all even worse. Mainstream media can't even get the basics right, I can only assume they want to steer people in a certain direction. It's impossible that they're not trying to direct people to think badly about Bitcoin when people go on TV to talk about it (for the worst reasons) and those people don't even have a clue what Bitcoin is. Extremely frustrating...

Bitcoin went from "dangerous and uninsured" to "dangerous, uninsured and criminal" on big mainstream media here.


Oh wow! Congratulations to Bloomberg, someone finally figured it out!


I see you like gambling :D

Bitcoin is indeed very well today .... even bitcoin is the number one tranding place in all circles .... but one bitcoin problem not all countries in the world accept bitcoin ....

Because of the hypes and also the increase to its price it is one of the most common topic in some social/media sites lately because they are all getting curious about bitcoin and why it is so high on its price and some of them are getting attracted to the price increase of bitcoin and they are all investing in which is the best option that a newbie person can do.

Wow thats great. Bitcoin is now introduced to them. They will now get interested on bitcoin and they will have an investment on it. And therefpre the demand might be increase as well.it will be more popular than the others. And i think the value of it will increase too.

Mass adoption may lead to price rise so its will be for the benefit of everyone. I'd been seeing a lot of Ico ads in every sites that I'm viewing. So in time many newbie will be here.

The media has been very potent in circulating news about a project whether the good or the bad but the issue about bitcoin is that when they propagate any negative news about it, I just have the feeling that they are only doing more in propagating the news about the subject matter because someone somewhere will want to understand what is actually going on about this 'thing' they are talking about while those of us already involved are not worried about the issue.

It really made the headline news, all of the radio and the government website mention about this, and bitcoin name being mentioned a lot of times, and at that point many of my friends asked me about it, but after the news passed, nobody interest in bitcoin anymore, but it sure increasing bitcoin awareness

Probably with the last price rise and growth of popularity Bitcoin has become more interesting to media too. After all, they are always looking for new sensations.
But majority of them still publish only bad news connected to Bitcoin, like cyber attacks and ransomware so mar people still beleive that Bitcoin is something illegal connected with criminal activities. That should be changed.

I am from Russia and for a long time I didn't hear any news about Bitcoin on our TV. I take all information from the forum and sites that specialized on crypto-currencies.

Like what you have witness in your place I also don't see some news about bitcoin, but I have been seeing issues on the social media or internet bitcoin news about the particular new about the Ransomware that are still going on different country, criminals are really doing something and moving right now to get their selves a piece of bitcoin, The situation illustrates the growing pains of Bitcoin as its ecosystem matures, they are committing money laundering over a transaction, well I don't know why in OP's media why they would report bitcoin incidents maybe it is really taking up a pinpoint to them that bitcoin is gaining popularity right now.

in my country, bitcoin is really got some places for new investment but i think people thinking that bitcoin can make them become rich with fast. i think its because there are any investment programs that using bitcoin as the payment and they making deposit with big amount of money and suddenly that programs is gone and people thinking that bitcoin is only for the illegal and for scamming people. its only a few people that is still using bitcoin for good purpose like doing trading or just hold bitcoin, but i hope in the future, many people will realize that bitcoin is only a source to them to make their life better and they can make money from bitcoin.

Personally I haven't seen any mainstream media talk about bitcoin. People are still very uneducated about it. But I've heard a few times about cryptocurrency in the news but it was used in the context of crime and something illegal. We need more positive representation of bitcoin.

That's bad to know that it's still about illegal things, I have read some news and saw some links as adveryisement for ico's, i was hoping that there are more good news like having a job, or a poor turns into millionaire to make btc a good impact to the society.

Media talks broadcast on television or radio do not reach my country about this, Even if it is on television most people who watch certainly do not know what is bitcoin because here are many people who do not know bitcoin.
But if it gets to the point of entry into the media it will probably be the growth of bitcoin users here because they're sure to figure out how it works.

As far I seen in my country people who knows bitcoin they never bother about but others around 99% people they are tying bitcoin with ramsomware

This will make bitcoin skyrocket more than we expected. But still I'm afraid because what if there will be many negative news and it will change the perspective of people on how they see bitcoin. We all know that the media is a very poweful tool so let us for the best for bitcoin.